Benjamin Bottle

Benjamin Bottle (16 September 1838-25 June 1882) was an American traveling salesman who was shot and killed by Eli Peck in Casper, Wyoming in 1882.

Biography
Benjamin Bottle was born on 16 September 1838 in New York City, New York. His fifth great-grandfather Francois Boutelle had immigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from the Kingdom of France in 1733 to avoid persecution due to being a Protestant, and he changed his surname to "Bottle". Benjamin was educated at Columbia College, graduating in 1861 with honors and becoming a salesman. Bottle entered the US Army during the American Civil War, serving with the commissariat due to his skills as a salesman. Bottle became a traveling salesman after the war's end, and his travels took him to Wyoming in 1882. On 25 June 1882, outlaw Eli Peck shot him in a dispute over his horse, and Bottle died on the scene; Peck would be hunted down on the first anniversary of Bottle's death and killed by lawmen.